UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

STUDENTS FROM DOMINIONS, RECOGNITION OF LOCAL STUDY. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 16. (Received July 16, at 5.5 p.m.) The policy of the English Universities in adhering to the full residential qualification on the ground that examinations do not constitute the whole matter of education was discussed at the University Congress on a plea for the mutual recognition in examinations of the time spent in study elsewhere. Sir Matthew Nathan pointed out that there was need of every facility for dominion students bringing ideas from their countries and taking back the widest and best trained outlook by obtaining ripeness where the sun of learning had shone longest. The afternoon passion discussed the lack of physical development in the students sent up from the secondary schools, with a lack of' lustre in the eyes and constipated complexions which meant holding up degree work. The comments on the shortcomings led Mr L. A. Adamson of Melbourne, to remark : “I hope it be a long time before England or Australia give up what has been called the sportsman dope.”—A, and N.Z. Cable.